On 7/12/2009 11:04 PM, Peter Fokes wrote:
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> http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Cheney-39ran-secret--black.5452141.jp
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> <quote on>
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> The unit was so secret that even the former CIA director George Tenet
> did not control its activities, according to reports yesterday.
>
> .....
>
> Speculation is rife that the unit was trained for the assassinations
> of foreign leaders suspected of aiding terrorists.
>
> Such a claim was made earlier this year by investigative journalist
> Seymour Hersh, who said he had evidence of an "executive assassination
> ring" under the direct control of the White House and which bypassed
> Congress, the joint chiefs of staff and the defence secretary.
>
> Assassination was outlawed in the 1970s following post- Watergate
> revelations of CIA assassinations and "dirty tricks" operations in
> Vietnam.
>
> <quote off>
>
>
> Regards,
> Peter Fokes,
> Toronto

So why are you allowed to link to and quote an article about the CIA and
I am not?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8143081.stm

  BBC NEWS
CIA 'often lied to congressmen'

CIA Director Leon Panetta has admitted that his agency regularly misled
Congress, six members of the House Intelligence Committee have alleged.

The claims are echoed in a letter from the committee's Democratic
chairman, Sylvestre Reyes.

The allegations follow a claim by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the
CIA misled her about interrogation methods.

A CIA spokesman has insisted that "it is not the policy or practice of
the CIA to mislead Congress".

'Significantly lied to'

The six committee members, who are all Democrats, alleged in a letter to
Mr Panetta that he "recently... testified... that top CIA officials have
concealed significant actions from all Members of Congress and misled
members for a number of years from 2001 to this week".

"This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other
periods," the letter states.

In a separate letter, Mr Reyes alleged that a "notification the
Committee received [from Mr Panetta] on 24 June 2009... [has] led me to
conclude that this Committee has been misled, has not been provided full
and complete notifications and (in at least one case) was significantly
lied to".

The BBC's Jon Donnison in Washington says that in recent months there
has been much debate over how much congressional leaders were told
during the Bush administration about controversial CIA interrogation
techniques such as water-boarding.

In particular, our correspondent says, Republicans have accused Mrs
Pelosi, a Democrat, of lying about how much she knew about such methods.

Republicans say this latest accusation from Mr Reyes in being used as a
distraction to shift attention away from Mrs Pelosi.

Mrs Pelosi insists that she was not told that the CIA had used
water-boarding on prisoners, and that any suggestion by the CIA that she
had been notified is untrue.

The row takes place as Democrats in Congress are attempting to push
through new rules governing who is allowed to declassify secret information.

They want to give the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence
Committees the power to open up classified information to the other
members of their committees.

The proposal is being fiercely opposed by the Obama White House, which
insists that only the president should have the power to declassify
information.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8143081.stm

Published: 2009/07/09 18:27:55 GMT

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